Big Data Contracts in the Midlands

Big Data
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 145 162
Rank change year-on-year +49 +17 -40
Contract jobs citing Big Data 35 19 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.29% 0.56% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.39% 3.34% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 17
10th Percentile £406 £400 £320
25th Percentile £509 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +10.53% -15.93%
75th Percentile £775 £631 £556
90th Percentile £850 £676 £593
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.50 - -
75th Percentile £33.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.25 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -54.81% +28.93% +35.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 417 569 941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.41% 16.85% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 392 706
10th Percentile £298 £313 £313
25th Percentile £356 £397 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £495 £456
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +8.61% +7.24%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £540
90th Percentile £690 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 16
10th Percentile - £21.04 £17.63
25th Percentile - £24.00 £22.31
Median hourly rate £14.00 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -27.86% +45.83%
75th Percentile £27.49 £26.48 -
90th Percentile £40.50 £31.64 £45.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £42.92
% change year-on-year -30.43% +33.98% +71.67%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the Midlands

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the Midlands

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the Midlands

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the Midlands

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +33 23 £675 +22.73% 16
East Midlands +28 12 £513 +2.50% 2
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (25.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.57%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) Serverless
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) Intrusion Detection
1 15 (42.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Hadoop
2 6 (17.14%) Data Lake
2 6 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (11.43%) Power BI
4 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.57%) Tableau
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.71%) Delta Lake
5 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.86%) DB2
6 1 (2.86%) MySQL
6 1 (2.86%) OLAP
6 1 (2.86%) OLTP
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.86%) Presto
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
General
1 20 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Architect
1 6 (17.14%) Developer
2 4 (11.43%) Azure Architect
2 4 (11.43%) Data Architect
2 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Hadoop Developer
3 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Security Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 2 (5.71%) Ab Initio Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Analytics Developer
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Architect
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Data Migration Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Migration Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (5.71%) PySpark
3 1 (2.86%) Anaconda
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Beam
3 1 (2.86%) JDBC
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) ODBC
3 1 (2.86%) RESTful
3 1 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (42.86%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (42.86%) Distributed Applications
2 10 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.57%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Android
1 13 (37.14%) Apple iOS
1 13 (37.14%) Linux
1 13 (37.14%) Unix
1 13 (37.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Analytics
2 18 (51.43%) Data Engineering
3 17 (48.57%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (45.71%) Data Management
5 15 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
5 15 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (42.86%) Information Security
5 15 (42.86%) Security Architecture
5 15 (42.86%) SIEM
6 13 (37.14%) Kalman Filter
6 13 (37.14%) Security Operations
7 12 (34.29%) Data Analysis
8 10 (28.57%) Data Analytics
9 8 (22.86%) ETL
10 7 (20.00%) Data Modelling
11 6 (17.14%) Agile
12 5 (14.29%) Data Architecture
13 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
13 4 (11.43%) Machine Learning
13 4 (11.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) Python
1 10 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (8.57%) Java
3 2 (5.71%) Scala
4 1 (2.86%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (37.14%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (42.86%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 6 (17.14%) Databricks
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle
3 3 (8.57%) Teradata
4 2 (5.71%) Ab Initio
4 2 (5.71%) Sage
5 1 (2.86%) Ariba
5 1 (2.86%) Autodesk
5 1 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk